Berching wind farm

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A REpower 3.2M114 wind turbine in the Berching wind farm
View of a REpower system from below

The Berching community wind farm is located on a plateau east of the city of Berching in the Neumarkt district in Upper Palatinate (Bavaria) between Nuremberg, Ingolstadt and Regensburg. It consists of ten wind turbines with a total output of 26.9 megawatts as well as a specially constructed 110 kV substation. The wind turbines are operated by companies belonging to the Max Bögl , Windpower and Wust - Wind und Sonne groups. In 2014, the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs recognized Windpower GmbH for the Berching community wind farm project as a creator of the energy transition .

General information

Windpower GmbH from Regensburg built most of the Berching community wind farm in 2012 and 2013 in cooperation with Max Bögl from Sengenthal near Neumarkt . The seven inland wind turbines of the three-megawatt class from Senvion have an installed capacity of 22 MW and generate around 50 million kWh of green electricity per year. Mathematically, this corresponds to 150 percent of the consumption of the city of Berching, including commercial and industrial electricity. The wind farm saves around 45,000 tons of carbon dioxide every year .

The wind park was financed as a community wind park . Over 2,300 people and eight municipalities are involved in the wind turbines directly through the operating companies or indirectly through the Maxwind Fund, the Upper Palatinate Wind Fund and several citizens ' energy cooperatives .

history

The first wind turbine, an Enercon E-40 / 5.40 , was built in 1998. It was followed in 2001 by two more systems, an Enercon E-58 and a NEG Micon NM60 / 1000 . In 2012, the wind farm was expanded to include six Senvion 3.2M114 wind turbines with a rotor diameter of 114 meters and a hub height of 143 meters. You harvest wind on 10,207 m², this corresponds to an area of ​​one and a half football fields. Construction of these first six plants began on April 23, 2012, and the first plants fed electricity into the grid for the first time in August. A new type of climbing crane from Max Bögl from Sengenthal was used to set up these systems . All systems were completed in October. At the time of construction, they were among the largest wind turbines in Bavaria. Parallel to the construction of the wind turbines, a 110 kV substation was built to feed in the wind power. This is directly connected to the 110 kV Neumarkt-Sittling line running through the wind farm. This means that these wind turbines feed directly into the supraregional power grid at the highest voltage level, which means that line losses are very low. The Bürgerwindgesellschaft Windpower GmbH & Co. Jura-Windkraftwerke KG, founded in 1998 with 80 partners from the region, carried out the first Bavarian repowering project in the Berching wind farm in 2013. A seventh Senvion 3.2M114 system was installed as a repowering replacement for the Enercon E-58 . The old system was shut down at the end of 2013 when the modern system was commissioned and dismantled a few months later. It was rebuilt in Eastern Europe. At the same time, a Vestas V112-3.0MW was built, which is also operated as a community wind turbine .

Wind turbines

Type Coordinates Power kW) Construction year Hub height (m) Rotor diameter (m) Total height (m) operator Remarks
Enercon E-58 WEA 1 (dismantled) 1000 2001 70 60 100 Windpower GmbH & Co. Jura-Windkraftwerke KG Dismantling in 2013 due to repowering
Senvion 3.2M114 WEA 1 (new) 3170 2013 143 114 200 Windpower GmbH & Co. Jura-Windkraftwerke KG
NEG Micon NM60 / 1000 WEA 2 (existing) 1000 2001 70 60 100
Enercon E-40 / 5.40 WEA 3 (existing) 500 1998 65 40 85
Senvion 3.2M114 WEA 4 3170 2012 143 114 200 Windpower GmbH & Co. Berching 1 KG - Upper Palatinate Wind Fund
Senvion3.2M114 Wind turbine 5 3170 2012 143 114 200 Windpower GmbH & Co. Berching 2 KG - Upper Palatinate Wind Fund
Senvion 3.2M114 WEA 6 3170 2012 143 114 200 WP Berching GmbH & Co. KG
Senvion 3.2M114 WEA 7 3170 2012 143 114 200 WP Berching GmbH & Co. KG
Senvion 3.2M114 WEA 8 3170 2012 143 114 200 Windpower GmbH & Co. Berching 3 KG - Upper Palatinate Wind Fund
Senvion 3.2M114 WEA 9 3170 2012 143 114 200 Windpower GmbH & Co. Berching 4 KG - Upper Palatinate Wind Fund
Vestas V112-3.0MW WEA 10 3050 2013 140 112 196 BWE Ernersdorf-Berching

See also

Web links

Commons : Windpark Berching  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Windpower GmbH. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Bürgerwindenergie Ernersdorf-Berching. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  3. ^ Windpower GmbH - Berching community wind farm. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Clean energy, rooted in our region. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Citizen participation in new dimensions. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Berching wind farm. Archived from the original on March 6, 2015 ; accessed on May 28, 2015 .
  7. ↑ The wind turbine is being replaced. In: Mittelbayerische. June 4, 2013, accessed May 28, 2015 .